Nice! Thank you for serving. How long were you in and what kind of electronics did you work on?
I was in a little over 3 years. I passed that test it is better to fail, the whizz quizz.
I had been a nuclear power candidate, and was waiting around on my A School and got popped for a joint. Some how I slipped through the cracks and still went to my school. Most of the time when you get popped, you are sent to the fleet as a Boatswain's Mate. But instead of getting my Push Button Crow, and the 6 year obligation that comes with Nuclear Power School, I was busted down to an E2. But I had my rating when I went to the fleet.
Most of my time I worked in the lighting or power shops. Lighting was everything that was 110, and power was all the 220 stuff. I was the electrical safety officer for a while. Which meant if it had a cord on it, and was aboard, I had to test it. That job was pretty skate.
My watches were on a 400 cycle 440 volt motor generator. I was by myself, which is rare on a ship. Other EM's stood watch in the engine rooms, where we burned a gallon of diesel fuel per second times two engine rooms. {water was turned to steam, steam turned generators and the main shaft. The switchboard operator was responsible for keeping the fires lit and the lights on} There was a crowd of people on watch there, including Chiefs and Officers. I refused to get qualified on the switchboards because I didn't want to lose my MG watch. Folks would come to the MG room to get high, because it was a good location, so I would get high two or three times during a six hour watch, just from passers by.
